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Look more closely, however, and you will discover that these countries’ vaunted growth models cannot possibly be replicated everywhere, because they rely on large external surpluses to
stimulate
the tradable sector and the rest of the economy.
The obvious lesson should have been that fiscal expansion does not
stimulate
economic growth when there is financial instability.
In addition, some governments in the region are under the double pressure of having to reduce their budget deficits and pay back debt; precious little will be left for expenditure that could
stimulate
economic activity, such as investments in infrastructure or energy efficiency.
In other words, Europeans are pessimistic about the future and thus are reluctant to
stimulate
growth, whereas Americans remain optimistic and prepared to give any policy instrument a chance.
Moreover, officials intend to
stimulate
innovation through research and development, including by lowering tax rates for high-technology firms.
Next to nothing, though, is being said about the Commission’s more important, and more integral, proposal: the 20% spending commitment for projects and initiatives that can
stimulate
resource-efficient business, protect Europe’s collective, boundary-less environment, and ensure a better future for families across the continent.
Since assuming office in 2013, Premier Li Keqiang’s government has chosen not to loosen the previous government’s rigorous macro policies, instead hoping that the resulting pressure on existing industries might help to
stimulate
the authorities’ sought-after structural shift toward household consumption and services.
Once the myriad legal and political obstacles are cleared, Mexico will be able to increase oil and gas production, drive down the price of electricity, and
stimulate
growth in an otherwise lethargic economy.
And they need eurozone policies that
stimulate
demand and provide some debt relief.
Governments, according to the conventional wisdom, should aim for stable prices, with a slight bias toward inflation to
stimulate
the “animal spirits" of businessmen and shoppers.
The ECB is about to discover the truth of this as it starts on its own €1 trillion program of monetary expansion in an effort to
stimulate
the stagnant eurozone economy.
Moreover, the southern EU countries, instead of leaving prices unchanged, could abandon austerity and issue an ever greater volume of new bonds to
stimulate
the economy.
As a result, the summit will most likely produce sincere pledges to work together to
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the global recovery and adjust the two sides’ economic imbalances – but not much more.
But reducing inequality requires higher levels of government spending and taxation (except when government is pursuing deficit spending to
stimulate
a depressed economy).
But the standard ways to
stimulate
the European economy are not available: fiscal policy is constrained by already-high debt levels; and the European Central Bank, fearing inflation, has kept a tight rein on monetary policy.
Productive investments in areas such as infrastructure and knowledge, can not only
stimulate
growth and employment in the short term, but also are a necessary condition for long-term prosperity.
This is a much better path than one that relies on leverage, low interest rates, and elevated asset prices to
stimulate
domestic demand beyond its natural recovery level.
In the current economic slowdown in Western Europe, moreover, it may be better to
stimulate
economies by increasing public spending rather than curtailing expenditures for the sake of meeting the conditions of EMU membership.
If this process is allowed to take its course, it will
stimulate
global growth and serve to reduce poverty.
At a November 2008 G20 summit in Washington, the world’s largest economies committed to doing whatever it would take to restore growth and
stimulate
domestic demand through macroeconomic stimulus.
In the future, new information and communication technologies are expected to
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the expansion of educational opportunities and to improve educational quality at the national and global level, by offering a variety of innovative learning channels.
In the run-up to next month’s G20 summit in Hangzhou, China has been calling loudly for new commitments to structural reforms to
stimulate
growth in advanced and emerging-market economies.
When both governments and markets fail, impact investors can
stimulate
change.
So, from the 1970s on, they began to spend to
stimulate
the economy.
Even if this does not trigger a crisis, it sharply narrows the government’s scope for using expansionary fiscal policy to
stimulate
the economy.
A “green” approach would not only
stimulate
additional growth; it would also be likely to increase the quality of growth, not to mention the lives of ordinary people.
Maybe the national highway system was more inspirational than the kinds of things that Roosevelt tried to
stimulate
the US out of the Great Depression.
Higher government spending could
stimulate
the economy further, assuming that it generates a level of inspiration like that of the Interstate Highway System.
It is not true that governments are inherently unable to
stimulate
people’s imagination.
In an article published on Christmas Day in the Wall Street Journal, the usually wise economist Martin Feldstein makes the case for a set of policies designed to
stimulate
demand, including increasing investment tax credits and shifting the corporate-tax burden to firms that do not spend very much.
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